MUNCIE — Muncie Central has found its next head football coach.
According to a release from the school sent out Thursday morning, Mississinewa head coach Kyle Buresh will take over as the next coach of the Bearcats. He has spent the last five seasons leading Mississinewa’s program, starting 11-0 last season before falling in the sectional championship to eventual 3A runner-up Fort Wayne Bishop Luers.
Buresh will replace Kyle Padgett, who resigned March 31 and took a position with the football program at Indianapolis Bishop Chatard.
“The improvement overall that they’ve made foundationally and culturally under coach Padgett has been really good and extremely positive,” Buresh said in the release. “It’s a place that has an extremely high ceiling from an athletic perspective, from a football perspective, and now it’s just time to see some of the fruits of that labor.”
Before he became Mississinewa’s head coach, Buresh spent nine seasons as an assistant coach at small college football programs, including stops at Denison University (Ohio), Indiana Wesleyan, Dakota Wesleyan (South Dakota), Wheaton College (Illinois), and Midland University (Nebraska).
HIs focus on wide receivers and quarterbacks earned him a reputation as an offensive-minded head coach — a reputation that was furthered by Mississinewa outscoring its opponents 456-80 last season.
The Bearcats have not posted a winning season since going 7-4 in 2016, but Buresh is hopeful that he can lead them back to prominence.
“The goal every game, every week is to win, but you have to trust the process that goes into winning, which is the meetings, the teaching, the practice, the…
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